*The emotion of Michael Brown’s stepfather may have put him in the sights of the authorities.
CNN reports that Ferguson police are considering whether or not to charge Louis Head for inciting a riot after the grand jury’s decision to not indict police officer Darren Wilson for killing Brown by yelling “Burn this b*tch down.”
Head was among a slew of people who took to the streets after the decision was announced on November. 24.
Speaking to TV and radio host Sean Hannity, Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson confirmed that although no charges have been filed yet against Head, the department is interviewing people who know Head and were with him on the day after prosecuting attorney Robert McCulloch announced the non-indictment was announced to determine whether he intended to start a riot.
“We are pursuing those comments, and there’s a lot of discussion going on about that right now, but I really can’t get into that at this time,” Jackson told Hannity.
Within an hour after the McCulloch’s announcement, reports of police cars being set on fire and looting in Ferguson surfaced. In light of the chaos that came after the grand jury’s decision, many wonder about the reason why McCulloch chose to make the announcement at night, when crowd control was unmanageable.
Despite the presence of National Guard troops, they were nowhere to be found in areas where they could’ve prevented the violence on the streets. According to USA Today, Ferguson MayorJames Knowles criticized the delay in deploying National Guard troops to help stop the violence in a press conference held Tuesday.
For Knowles, the delay was ‘deeply concerning’ as he acknowledged that Guard troops were available but were not deployed when city officials asked. Rather than being assigned where the violence was most prevalent, Knowles stated that National Guard troopers were “keeping the peace
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